A Ghost Story for Christmas

Season 2

2005 · 3 episodes · 2h 11m in all

In the early 2000s, the BBC began airing new adaptations of stories by MR James.

Episodes

1. 

   1. A View From a Hill

   23 Dec 2005 · 39 min

   A historian has a disturbing experience after borrowing a pair of binoculars belonging to a missing outcast and venturing up a notorious landmark.

2. 

   2. Number 13

   22 Dec 2006 · 40 min

   An academic researcher repudiates local superstitions surrounding a devilish house. However, repeated visions and noises during the night suggest he may be proved wrong.

3. 

   3. Whistle and I'll Come to You

   24 Dec 2010 · 52 min

   Leaving his ill and ageing wife in a care home, a retired astronomer revisits one of their old coastal haunts, but after discovering a ring on the beach is soon haunted himself.